ICS 265 GRAPH ALGORITHMS Code: 36760 Lectures: TuTh 5:00- 6:20p in CS 209 This is an introductory course into basic graph theoretic concepts and algorithms. The topics that will be covered include: 1. Overview 2. Definitions and Background 3. Trees and Matroids 4. Search Techniques, Distances and Connectivity 5. Traversability 6. Colouring and the Probabilistic Method 7. Factors, Covers, Matching, and Network Flows 8. Planarity 9. Structured Families of Graphs Text: Douglas West, "Introduction to Graph Theory", Ed. 2, Prentice Hall, 2001 Grading: Assignments (2-3) 50% Project 50%